The Issue Of Validity

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Validity is the extent to which something asked receives fair data. Validity goes further into saying that the response provides expected data results. The issue with validity is the interpretation of the question asked. One instance of validity presents itself in the beginning of the article. The authors discuss the biased reports of employers and their perspectives/attitudes toward race and their actual actions or results. The employers say one thing but demonstrate something else. The authors imply research statements that produce inconsistent results construes the analysis of the problem at hand. In other words, it does not evaluate data that it was supposed to provide. A unique issue of validity occurs in the unanticipated phenomenon of

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